Danny Hart (born 20 September 1991) is a British downhill mountain biker who currently rides for Cube Factory Racing. He won the 2011 and 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.
Career
Hart was educated at Rye Hills School in Redcar. He had received financial support from Redcar and Cleveland Young People's Trust as a junior rider. In October 2011, after winning the World Championships, Hart and former Olympic triple-jumper Jonathan Edwards and world paratriathlete Charlotte Ellis helped launch a £31m project to build a leisure centre in Redcar.
Hart won the 2007 youth national championship at Rheola, Wales in conditions he described as 'really terrible'. In 2008, when 16, he began competing the elite class internationally, with a best DH World Cup result of 22nd at Vallnord, Andorra in June. In 2009 he won the Maxxis Cup in Vigo, Spain, and came second in the junior national championship at Innerleithen, Scotland, third at the junior world championship in Canberra, Australia and 20th in the Elite class at the Fort William, Scotland round of the World Cup in June of that year.
Major results
2011
1st UCI World Downhill Championships
4th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
2nd Fort William
2nd Val di Sole
2012
7th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
2nd Fort William
3rd Mont Sainte-Anne
2013
9th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
2nd Hafjell
2014
1st Red Bull Hardline
8th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
3rd Fort William
3rd Mont Sainte-Anne
2015
1st National Downhill Championships
2016
1st UCI World Downhill Championships
2nd National Downhill Championships
2nd Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
1st Lenzerheide
1st Mont Sainte-Anne
1st Vallnord
3rd Lourdes
3rd Fort William
2017
3rd National Downhill Championships
6th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
3rd Vallnord
3rd Lenzerheide
3rd Mont Sainte-Anne
2018
2nd National Downhill Championships
2nd Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
3rd Val di Sole
3rd Mont Sainte-Anne
2019
1st National Downhill Championships
4th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
1st Snowshoe
2nd Maribor
2021
3rd National Downhill Championships
References
External links
1991 births
Living people
Downhill mountain bikers
People from Redcar
Cyclists from Yorkshire
UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (men) English male cyclists English mountain bikers